Sentences with phrase «whether legal persons»

As a first and preliminary step, the AG discusses whether legal persons enjoy personality rights.

AG Bobek commenced his opinion with a discussion of the question whether legal persons have personality rights (which he suggested they do), a question that the Court completely ignored.

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Meanwhile, marijuana remains illegal on the federal level, and Attorney General Jeff Sessions has recently taken steps that would allow federal prosecutors in states where weed is legal to decide whether to prosecute people over marijuana sales in a development that could threaten the burgeoning industry (or, at the very least, spur litigation from some of the states in question looking to keep the federal government from interfering with statewide legislation).

Often, whether a child was adopted or born to one of the parties, only one person in the relationship has legal parental rights even if both are raising the child.

«The people who operate Bitcoin would, of course, be prohibited from committing fraud but the people should be able to have competition whether it is a basket of commodities or crypto - currencies - it should be perfectly legal.»

The board of Viacom Inc. is considering whether to cut the pay of Chairman Emeritus Sumner Redstone, people familiar with the matter say, in the wake of a legal battle that highlighted the ailing mogul's health problems.

«There are definitely people who say, «Yeah, I want it legal, but I don't want it next door,»» said Adam Chapdelaine, the town manager of Arlington, where residents will soon vote on whether to extend through December a moratorium that was due to expire in June.

Mr Giuliani also revealed what legal analysts say might be tantalising leads for investigators, who already were exploring Mr Cohen's business practices and whether any crimes may have been committed as part of a pattern or strategy of paying hush money to keep damaging stories about Mr Trump from appearing when he was a candidate, according to people familiar with the matter.

The test, he says, is whether a natural or legal person had a duty that was violated by acting unreasonably, in a way that causes harm.

Senior CDU member Wolfgang Bosbach told newspaper Bild that people can celebrate whatever religious holiday they want, but «whether the state should also protect non-Christian holidays with legal regulation in future is a different issue entirely.»

The Abortion Act has a clear provision to respect the conscience of staff: «No person shall be under any duty, whether by contract or by any statutory or other legal requirement, to participate in any treatment authorised by this Act to which he has a conscientious objection.»

So the courageous pro-choice position must be that whether a fetus is a legal person must not depend on the mystical, idiosyncratic determination of the mother that her embryo is or isn't a person to her.

If someone has the opinion that gay marriage should not be made legal whether it is because of their beliefs at not (yes, there actually are people who are not Christians who don't agree with gay marraige), they are pointed out as Christians deserving of hatred and death.

The crucial question is whether a plurality of religious and secular faiths, each of which had developed its own traditional culture, that is, philosophy, morality, ideology and legal system of corporate life, can, through inter-faith rational discourse, create at least the basic framework of a common culture or common direction and scheme of values for peoples to build together a new dwelling, like the national community.

However, I think anyone who disregards the health of a child should face a legal consequence, whether that person is the child's parent or not.

It corresponds to the worst fears of single advocate Bella DePaulo, who has written that even when gay and lesbian people gain true marriage equality, «all those people who are single — whether gay or straight or any other status — will still remain second class citizens,» wanting for the tax breaks and legal dispensations and next - of - kin rights enjoyed by their married peers.

Another judge offended by the callousness of giving people a visa and then pulling the rug out from under them once they get here, may decide, «I want to explore whether a visa is the legal equivalent of a contract that the government has breached.»

Experience in Oregon in the USA where assisted dying has been legal for 15 years shows that the law works safely and that dying people take comfort from having the «insurance policy» of the choice of an assisted death, whether or not they actually use the law.

«There are serious legal consequences for any person posing a threat whether or not they intend to actually execute upon that threat,» said Cuomo, a Democrat.

The BHA was called to give evidence to the Commission's inquiry into whether there should be a change in law to legalise assisted dying in the UK and made the case that there are good ethical reasons not to limit legal assisted dying only to terminally ill people but to others who are incurably suffering, and to permit voluntary euthanasia as well as assisted dying to maximise autonomy of patients who wish to end their lives but are unable to do so themselves.

The problem is that making such a product illegal doesn't remove the demand for it, and people are going to insist on getting their hands on it whether the government has deemed it «legal» or not.

DraftKings lawyer Randy Mastro said Schneiderman was an «outlier,» and another member of the company's legal team, Jonathan Schiller, said the games differ from gambling in that people derived benefits regardless of whether they won.

The troubling issue for many people regarding Artvoice is that while I too have a first amendment right to print whatever I want I'm under no legal obligation to print what Carl Paladino sent to me, therefore, it's under my discretion whether to release Paladino's comments or to censor them and hide them from the public.

The point is that any person whether they have power as a demagogue, or through illegal use of our justice system, can threaten the legal standing of our democracy.

Police said they were assessing whether people were «domestic extremists», but opponents say the term has no legal definition or strict meaning.

The government is hiking the costs of the process so much that most people simply won't be able to afford to mount a legal challenge against the executive - whether that's a government minister, your local council, or any other public sector area where busybody officials look to take shortcuts.

Denise Jewell Gee notes that the debate over whether daily fantasy football betting is legal is «besides the point» for those who are trying to help problem gamblers because «they're already seeing people who need help because they've lost control to the game.»

Whether this now prompts legal challenges or referendums, Andrew Cuomo will now be forever marked as the governor who politically forced a gay marriage law on the people of New York State without bothering to draw a more honest consensus from the population.

That is, whether his legal defense fund — which will cover his costs from investigations into the possible sale of City Hall favors to his donors — will take money from people doing business with the city.

The words «writ of habeas corpus» have been struck out, suggesting that the court has made no decision on whether Hercules and Leo — two research chimpanzees at Stony Brook University in New York — deserve to be treated as legal persons.

To see whether the shift in attitude would endure despite hearing opposing messages (as would be common during a political battle), during the online survey six weeks after the canvassing conversation the researchers showed voters one of the transphobic television ads used to overturn legal protections for transgender people in Houston.

Whereas these advances have a great potential for research and medicine, they pose a fundamental ethical, legal and social challenge: determining whether or under what conditions it is legitimate to gain access to or interfere with another person's neural activity.

The question of whether people can harbor more than one character has important legal and therapeutic implications.

When does a court independently decide what the statute means and whether it has or has not vested a legal right in a person?

The commission did suggest that researchers had the right to exclude from studies people who didn't want potentially lifesaving findings returned to them and wondered whether researchers have a legal obligation to return certain findings and can be sued if they don't.

Watts also expects his group will wrestle with whether the mitochondrial donor — the much - touted «third parent» — should have any legal rights to the child or be treated as an organ donor, and whether mitochondrial genes affect a person's «identity» in ways that are yet unknown to science.

In the early 20th century, European legal experts were divided over whether states even had the right to control people's international movements.

In the China Study, Dr. T. Collin Campbell writes that «most, but not all, of the confusion about nutrition is created in legal, fully disclosed ways and is disseminated by unsuspecting, well - intentioned people, whether they are researchers, politicians or journalists.»

It also helps people evaluate whether they have a legal case because of life - changing side effects or complications.

The Court held that the state must furnish Gaines «within its borders facilities for legal education substantially equal to those which the State there offered for the persons of the white race, whether or not other Negroes sought the same opportunity.»

In states that do have a legal definition it is usually defined as whether a «reasonable person» would think that an official has what appears to be a conflict of interest and therefore has a responsibility to take action to eliminate that appearance.

I am starting of as author and beginning to write my first book.I heard someone say if writing an actual story whether it be myself and other people I really know in the book.To have everyone sign a legal document type thing by lawyer giving permission to use peoples real names.so as to avoid any lawsuit that may occur with the book.and is it best to use a pen name for myself and made up name for actual people being included in the book.what would your opinion be on legel grounds safer to use made up names.thank you

L. «Person» means any natural person, corporation, company, partnership, joint venture, firm, association, proprietorship, agency, board, authority, commission, office, or other business or legal entity, whether private or governmPerson» means any natural person, corporation, company, partnership, joint venture, firm, association, proprietorship, agency, board, authority, commission, office, or other business or legal entity, whether private or governmperson, corporation, company, partnership, joint venture, firm, association, proprietorship, agency, board, authority, commission, office, or other business or legal entity, whether private or governmental.

Finally, consider: We've received some asks about whether having a manga available in English on a legal manga site makes a print version less likely because people have already read it.

Companies could also file a U.S. suit against a person living abroad, Hunter says, but that company's success would depend on the country's legal system and whether it would cooperate with the United States.

D. No person or legal entity providing information to the board, whether as a report, a complaint or testimony, shall be subject to civil damages or criminal prosecutions.

Whether you decide to get apure breed or a mixed, you will now have to fulfill all of the legal regulations by respecting your neighbors, making sure to take care of any damage or problems the puppy may cause, making sure the puppy does not disturb anyone and people living around you, that it does not bark all the time, and that it does not mess up the sidewalks, private places, and public walkways, and if and when it does, to clean it up.

In the face of Donald Trump's cabinet nomination of Scott Pruitt, an AG who was part of the backlash against the racketeering persecution of «climate deniers», is Shabecoff actually blissfully unaware that in the legal action he's demanding, the accusation would be cross examined in order to determine whether people accused of denying climate change and deliberately spreading lies and misinformation for the purpose of criminally blocking meaningful action... actually undertook exactly that action??

«You can understand that this powerful person is using the power of his office to intimidate people and to harass people and you wonder whether you should have legal counsel.

Questions have arisen whether the power of fiduciaries over people's digital assets is clear and whether its exercise needs an express legal framework.